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"If on a Winter's Night a Traveller" Quotes
"If on a Winter's Night a Traveller" is a metafictional novel by Italo Calvino that explores the fragmented and disjointed nature of reading through the experiences of a Reader trying to navigate multiple interrupted narratives.
Quotes
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
The novel begins in a railway station, where a man is about to board a train.
What does it matter who is speaking, someone said, what does it matter who is speaking.
Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my readings.
Reading is a discontinuous and fragmentary operation.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
In reading, as in travel, we are suspended in a void.
Every time I begin a book, I feel like I’m starting a new life.
The ideal place for reading is somewhere where you can concentrate, but also where you can be distracted.
Your reading is a continuation of the story that began in the pages of the book.
